Dear all,
As Wikipedians, I'm not sure how many support Net Neutrality, but as
Netizens I'm sure most of them are supporting Net Neutrality.
Considering 24 April 2015 is the last day to protest against telecoms and
request TRAI to have to have relook onto the consultation paper
<http://www.trai.gov.in/content/CONSULTATION/0_All.aspx>, I think Wikipedia
also stands as a major platform to lend support to all Netizens including
ourselves.
I do recollect how Wikipedia helped protest against SOPA and PIPA
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA#Wikimedia_community>.
I think this kind of protest will help the maximum community of Netizens as
whole. Also, as Indian Wikipedians, we would grab some eyballs which would
have impact on contributions to Wikimedia projects as well.
I think Wikipedia, especially the English community should initiate a
discussion on how the community and contribute to create an impact in
India.
*Please note: *Wikipedia Zero and Airtel Zero (just as an example) is all
together a different concept; where the first focuses on on giving
educational right to individuals and later to promote business of their
partners by various means (speeding their partners site, slowing down
competitors site and so on).
FYI: Flipkart did withdrew from Airtel Zero lending your official support
to Net Neutrality.
Some more facts:
* Net Neutrality in India Wikipedia article is seeing increase everydays in
terms of views
* More than 4 lakhs emails has been sent to TRAI from
http://www.netneutrality.in/ alone
"Just imagine a day a paid encyclopedia loads faster in all ISPs then
Wikipedia." Do we want to see such a day?
Regards from Mumbai,
Karthik Nadar.